Now that we have made our way through some different retouching steps, we are…ready to make a pretty significant structural change, in regards to the overall…length of the legs and the overall height of the photograph.…Well, before we take this next step, we need to make sure we can commit to these…adjustments we've made and we may want to modify them a bit.…For example, if you want to lower the intensity of this dress effect, well…you want to do so now.…So go ahead and get that exactly where you want it.…Also, with the skin maybe you want to soften that a bit more too.…

Whatever you want to do, make sure you have those exactly where you want…them, before and after.…We want to have those dialed-in, because what we are going to do is click in our…topmost layer, we are going to merge all of these underlying layers to the very top,…in order to make these next two adjustments.…Let's go ahead and merge the top by pressing on a Mac, Shift+Option+Command+E,…on Windows, Shift+Alt+Ctrl+E. This first adjustment is going to be for the legs. All right! Let's zoom out.…

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7/14/2010

In Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching, professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his extensive experience with Photoshop to focus on the specific tools every photographer needs to adjust images and keep them looking genuine. This course explores this program's deep resources for portrait retouching and inspires photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Exercise files are included with the course.